Volume 2

The physiological anatomy and physiology of man / by Robert Bentley Todd and William Bowman.

Date:
1845-1856
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Credit: The physiological anatomy and physiology of man / by Robert Bentley Todd and William Bowman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    We may then conclude from human and comparative anatomy, from experiment and pathological states, that the ninth nerve is the motor nerve of the tongue. Its anastomoses with the vagus, and with the fifth, make it probable that it contains some sensitive fila- ments, and this is confirmed by experiments which shew that some sensibility is possessed by the nei’ve, and that this is greatest the nearer we appi’oach the tongue. But that it has no influence upon taste or upon the common sensibility of the organ, is proved by the unimpaired state of both those powers, after complete section of the nerve.* * In addition to the principal systematic works on physiology, reference may he made to Valentin, dc Functionibus Nerv. Cerebr. ; the Papers of Sir C. Bell, col- lected in an octavo volume, 1844 ; Mayo’s papers in his Anat. and Physiol. Com- mentaries, and his Pliysiology ; Longet sur le Systhme ncrveux.